Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Christian Hiebaum / Susanne Knaller / Doris Pichler (Hg.) Recht und Literatur im Zwischenraum / Law and Literature In-Between Aktuelle inter- und transdisziplinäre Zugänge / Contemporary Inter- and Transdisciplinary Approaches Klappentext Bibliographische Daten Der Beziehung von Recht und Literatur wird seit einigen Jahrzehnten sowohl in der Literatur- als...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Lars Wilhelmer Transit-Orte in der Literatur Eisenbahn – Hotel – Hafen – Flughafen Klappentext Bibliographische Daten Von Ovid bis Freud, von Canetti bis Deleuze/Guattari – Achim Geisenhanslüke setzt sich mit den seit der Antike überlieferten Figuren der Wolfsmänner auseinander und entwickelt eine Theoriegeschichte dieser sagenumwobenen Mischwesen. Die Analyse...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Jillmarie Murphy Attachment, Place, and Otherness in Nineteenth-Century American Literature New Materialist Representations Klappentext Bibliographische Daten This interdisciplinary study examines the role interpersonal and place attachment bonds play in crafting a national identity in American literature. Although there have been numerous ecocritical studies...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Sara Tanderup Linkis Memory, Intermediality, and Literature Something to Hold on to Klappentext Bibliographische Daten Memory, Intermediality, and Literature investigates how selected literary works use intermedial strategies to represent and perform cultural memory. Drawing on the theoretical perspectives of cultural memory studies, this engaging,...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Stewart King Murder in the Multinational State Crime Fiction from Spain Klappentext Bibliographische Daten As Spaniards set out to transform the political, social and cultural landscape of the nation following the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975, its crime fiction traces, challenges and celebrates these radical changes. Crime Fiction from Spain:...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Bunty Avieson / Fiona Giles / Sue Joseph (Hg.) Still Here Memoirs of Trauma, Illness and Loss Klappentext Bibliographische Daten Still Here: Memoirs of Trauma, Illness and Loss explores the history, ethics, and cross-cultural range of memoirs focusing on illness, death, loss, displacement, and other experiences of trauma. From Walt Whitman’s Civil War...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Evert Jan Van Leeuwen / Michael Newton (Hg.) Haunted Europe Continental Connections in English-Language Gothic Writing, Film and New Media Klappentext Bibliographische Daten Haunted Europe offers the first comprehensive account of the British and Irish fascination with a Gothic vision of continental Europe, tracing its effect on British intellectual life...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Margarida Rendeiro / Federica Lupati (Hg.) Challenging Memories and Rebuilding Identities Literary and Artistic Voices that undo the Lusophone Atlantic Klappentext Bibliographische Daten Taking an original approach, Challenging Memories and Rebuilding Identities: Literary and Artistic Voices that undo the Lusophone Atlantic explores a selected body of...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Janko Andrijasevic God Behind the Screen Literary Portraits of Personality Disorders and Religion Klappentext Bibliographische Daten This interdisciplinary study of literary characters sheds light on the relatively under-studied phenomenon of religious psychopathy. God Behind the Screen: Literary Portrais of Religious Psychopathy identifies and rigorously...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Barry Sheils / Julie Walsh (Hg.) Shame and Modern Writing Klappentext Bibliographische Daten Shame and Modern Writing seeks to uncover the presence of shame in and across a vast array of modern writing modalities. This interdisciplinary volume includes essays from distinguished and emergent scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and shorter practice-based...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Chris Andrews / Matt McGuire (Hg.) Post-Conflict Literature Human Rights, Peace, Justice Klappentext Bibliographische Daten This book brings together a variety of perspectives to explore the role of literature in the aftermath of political conflict, studying the ways in which writers approach violent conflict and the equally important subject of peace. Essays...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Karen Elizabeth Bishop (Hg.) Cartographies of Exile A New Spatial Literacy Klappentext Bibliographische Daten This book proposes a fundamental relationship between exile and mapping. It seeks to understand the cartographic imperative inherent in the exilic condition, the exilic impulses fundamental to mapping, and the varied forms of description proper to...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Justin D. Edwards / Sandra Vasconcelos (Hg.) Tropical Gothic in Literature and Culture The Americas Klappentext Bibliographische Daten Tropical Gothic examines Gothic within a specific geographical area of ‘the South’ of the Americas. In so doing, we structure the book around geographical coordinates (from North to South) and move between various national...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Ranjan Ghosh Transcultural Poetics and the Concept of the Poet From Philip Sidney to T. S. Eliot Klappentext Bibliographische Daten Critiquing the politics and dynamics of the transcultural poetics of reading literature, this book demonstrates an ambitious understanding of the concept of the poet across a wide range of traditions – Anglo-American, German,...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Simon Estok / Jonathan White / I-Chun Wang (Hg.) Landscape, Seascape, and the Eco-Spatial Imagination Klappentext Bibliographische Daten Written from within the best traditions of ecocritical thought, this book provides a wide-ranging account of the spatial imagination of landscape and seascape in literary and cultural contexts from many regions of the world. It brings...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Ricia A. Chansky (Hg.) Auto/Biography across the Americas Transnational Themes in Life Writing Klappentext Bibliographische Daten Auto/biographical narratives of the Americas are marked by the underlying themes of movement and belonging. This collection proposes that the impact of the historic or contemporary movement of peoples to, in, and from the...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Naya Tsentourou Milton and the Early Modern Culture of Devotion Bodies at Prayer Klappentext Bibliographische Daten Miton and Early Modern Devotional Culture analyses the representation of public and private prayer in John Milton’s poetry and prose, paying particular attention to the ways seventeenth-century prayer is imagined as embodied in sounds,...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Sarah Falcus / Katsura Sako (Hg.) Contemporary Narratives of Dementia Ethics, Ageing, Politics Klappentext Bibliographische Daten This book examines narratives of dementia in contemporary literary texts, studying what is now a pressing issue with deep political, economic, and social implications for many ageing societies. As part of the increasing visibility...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Antonio Alcalá González / Ilse Marie Bussing López (Hg.) Doubles and Hybrids in Latin American Gothic Klappentext Bibliographische Daten Doubles and Hybrids in Latin American Gothicfocuses on a recurrent motif that is fundamental in the Gothic—the double. This volume explores how this ancient notion acquires tremendous force in a region, Latin America, which is itself...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Claire Hélie / Elise Brault-Dreux / Emilie Loriaux (Hg.) No Dialect Please, You're a Poet English Dialect in Poetry in the 20th and 21st Centuries Klappentext Bibliographische Daten No Dialect Please, You're a Poet is situated at the crossroads in research areas of literature and linguistics. This collection of essays brings to the forefront the many ways...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Jan Ellyn Goggans Make it Work 20th Century American Fiction and Fashion Klappentext Bibliographische Daten Imagine a new critical theory that bases its literary value on fashion. In this theory exists a community that explores and interrogates conventionality, and in American literature of the 20th century, it includes fashion and home decoration, two paths...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Lava Asaad Literature with A White Helmet The Textual-Corporeality of Being, Becoming, and Representing Refugees Klappentext Bibliographische Daten Literature with A White Helmet explores issues of refugee writers, contemporary works of fiction and nonfiction on the refugee’s body and experience, the biopolitics of refugees, and disputes over the ethicality of...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Michel Delville / Andrew Norris (Hg.) The Politics and Aesthetics of Hunger and Disgust Perspectives on the Dark Grotesque Klappentext Bibliographische Daten This study examines how hunger narratives and performances contribute to a reconsideration of neglected or prohibited domains of thinking which only a full confrontation with the body’s heterogeneity and...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Michael C. Frank The Cultural Imaginary of Terrorism in Public Discourse, Literature, and Film Narrating Terror Klappentext Bibliographische Daten This study investigates the overlaps between political discourse and literary and cinematic fiction, arguing that both are informed by, and contribute to, the cultural imaginary of terrorism. Whenever mass-mediated...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Hanna Meretoja / Colin Davis (Hg.) Storytelling and Ethics Literature, Visual Arts and the Power of Narrative Klappentext Bibliographische Daten In recent years there has been a huge amount of both popular and academic interest in storytelling as something that is an essential part of not only literature and art but also our everyday lives as well as our...
